All Broadcast articles in 15 December 2000
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BBC Breakfast editor quits for sports role
Thompson to join Salmon in re-positioning of BBC sport as speculation on launch of BBC sports channel continues
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Megalomedia to sell Framestore and CFC
Framestore founders Reed and Sargent to buy businesses for new company Guidedraw
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talkSPORT has licence renewed
New financial deal will help the station 'move faster towards breakeven'
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Digital channels to take on Sky over high cost of interactive launches
A group of digital TV channels is set to lobby the Office of Fair Trading over the cost of launching interactive services on Sky's digital platform, writes David Wood.Channel heads
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White Paper Special - Ofcom named as watchdog
As expected, the white paper outlined the details of a new single regulatory body for the communications industry, with two divisions, to deal with economic and content issues, writes Penny Hughes.
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White Paper Special - MPs welcome Smith proposals
MPs have reacted favourably to the communications white paper although their questions in the Commons on Tuesday (12 December) revealed anxiety over the strength of regional TV and the BBC.Shadow media
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SOLID STATE MD TO QUIT
Solid State Logic (SSL) managing director John Jeffery is to step down from 1 January and will be replaced by Colin Pringle, who is currently group marketing director. Pringle joined SSL
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MANUFACTURER MOVES
A number of recent appointments have been made at manufacturers and their resellers. Jayson Chase has quit Tyrell to join the Root 6 sales team. He will be replaced in January
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Lookalikes
Get satisfaction from the rockin' similarities between these two hardcore party animals, Granada Creative chair Andrea Wonfor and Rolling Stones bass player Ronnie Wood. While one has more groupies than most
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Millionaire or weakest link?
So you want to be a TV executive? Do you know what the main events of the year were in broadcasting? The demands of broadband or the 22.00 news move debacle?
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White Paper Special - ITN and Sky in limbo over news
A lack of clarity on the rules over ITV's nominated news provider in the white paper has left both ITN and Sky News in limbo over the ITV news contract, write Lucy Rouse and Simon Ellery.
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Restructure leads to job losses at Itel
Granada International this week unveiled its restructure following its merger with former United News & Media distribution arm Itel in the first swathe of a number of planned changes.As predicted by
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Granada Media to merge sports
Granada Media has stepped up its plans to dominate the UK commercial television content market by unveiling its own dedicated sports department.The company is rebranding its recently acquired United Sport division
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Johnson joins Granada Sky
Former Granada lifestyle head of production Lesley Johnson is joining Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) in a newly created role as head of production, writes Colin Robertson.
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White Paper Special - Government mulls spectrum pricing
The Government aims to value broadcasting spectrum for the first time, in a move that could see a change in the way broadcasters pay for the privilege of using the space, writes Katy Elliott.
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Rights money to fund grass roots sport
The European Council (EC) has decided that sporting bodies should contribute fixed percentages of the proceeds of the sale of their broadcast rights to developing grass roots sport, writes John Lewis.
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FOREVER POSTS LOSS
Forever Broadcasting has announced its first set of preliminary results for the period to 30 September since its incorporation in September 1999. Forever floated on AIM in August and has recorded
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AND FINALLY...
LWT's Sean Kneale, producer of The Way They Were 4 - Coronation St Special, on eating glue...
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Paul Watson filming
NHS leading film-maker Paul Watson is making a major documentary on the way National Health Service hospitals handle the anticipated patient crisis this winter, writes Colin Robertson.
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Ratings - ITV's William has the most fans
Prince William was ITV's crowning glory this week, as the network beat BBC 1 in the battle over last-minute specials on the prince's exploits in Patagonia, writes Jon Rogers.